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Amazon Water Snake

Hydrops martii

Classification

Hydrops martii, also known commonly as the Amazon water snake and cobra d'água in Brazilian Portuguese, is a species of snake belonging to the subfamily Dipsadinae of the family Colubridae. The species is native to northern South America. Taxonomy The species, Elaps martii, named after German botanist Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794–1868), was first described by German herpetologist Johann Georg Wagler in 1824.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Peru · 13Brazil · 6